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Historical Event on 2/18/1931

Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1992Zimbabwe's first Test match vs India at Harare.
6/19/1931Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa.
1/27/1995K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term.
1/10/1998Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
1/12/1863Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta.
11/1/1956Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.
4/3/1991UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls .
10/23/1973Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died.
9/22/1902Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, (right-hand batsman who batted in India's first two Tests), was born in Bombay.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.